I know many bisexual men who have emotional “dating type” relationships with women, but every once in a while want to have sex with men for the feeling. A bisexual male could have 90% of their sexual and emotional relationships with a person of the opposite sex and maybe 10% of the time with someone of the same sex. Here is what I don’t get about the program at USC - if the week is about bisexuality, why invite a group of supposedly “straight” guys who have gay sex on film? What does that have to do with healthy attitudes toward bisexuality?īisexuality comes in many different combinations. Tags: bisexuality-awareness week, chris freeman, five days of going both ways, porn “We don’t take ourselves seriously at all”. The actors are relaxed, the producers are proud of what they create. The testimonies of the panelists certainly go a long way toward dispelling any notions that straight actors performing in the gay porn business are coerced into doing so or else doing so miserably for the sake of the extra money. The use of condoms is at the actor’s discretion, but he also said it is not uncommon for an actor to leave the job knowing more about safe sex practices than he did before. “I’m just glad I’m having these experiences while I’m still young.”īlue said he takes pride in the fact that his work places an emphasis on safe sex and sexual education. “I’m not afraid of getting older,” Sky said. It’s definitely a big part of my life since I began working in porn.”Īll three actors also agreed that, while porn is an industry in which job security is only guaranteed when young, they don’t feel pressured by the age limits, as they do not see porn as a career. The demand of gay porn in particular for a certain kind of physique also introduced him to regular exercise, which he now says “is like therapy for me. Sky, a young gay actor who is still relatively new to the business, explained that being in gay porn pushed him to overcome many self-confidence issues that he struggled with as a teenager.
Still, they relayed various anecdotes about their families, which revealed that most of their loved ones were more supportive of their decisions than we might initially think.įor the most part, all five panelists agreed that the impact that working in the gay porn industry has had on their lives has been positive. Some panelists had told their families about their work, while others had not. “As far as your relationships go, you can never tell, at least in the beginning, how someone’s going to react to your job,” Rideout said. Still, there’s no denying such a lifestyle must have some negative consequences on the panelists’ personal lives.
Kyser, who works predominately with a style called reality porn also noted that “actors usually come with a list of dos and don’ts.” Most people want to do what they’re doing.” That’s not what we do here … Maybe one out of 100 guys backs out after we hire them.
“There are a lot of desperate people out there who will do literally anything for quick money. “If it’s not your thing, it doesn’t make good porn,” he said. They were also adamant in clarifying that, while many actors on that side of the industry are straight, nothing is forced upon them.īlue, who owns his own gay porn production company, said it is up to the actors to decide whether or not to be in his films.
You’re treated more like an actor and less like a prop,” he said.Īll the actors agreed that the transition from straight to gay porn acting is not as strange as it seems. “It’s actually a more comfortable setting. Hudson, who identifies as straight and has been acting in gay porn for about three years, said despite what viewers might assume, the performance itself is “totally non-sexual … It’s always very mechanical.”Īs an actor who has worked in both gay and straight porn, Rideout noted that, while his personal relationships are straight, he prefers working in gay porn because the directors and producers are more respectful of the men. They were accompanied by Kim Kyser and Randy Blue, both of whom are involved in the directing and managerial side of the porn business. Neither excitement nor curiosity was curtailed as actors Nicco Sky, Wolf Hudson and Reese Rideout took the stage in the dimly lit Montgomery Ross Fisher Building to describe their work and answer questions about how they ended up in such unlikely situations. The twist - some of these actors are straight. Leah Thompson | Daily TrojanĪs a part of USC’s Five Days of Going Both Ways bisexuality-awareness week, Professor Chris Freeman moderated “‘Gay for Pay’ in the Porn Industry,” a panel that featured working professionals in the increasingly popular gay porn industry.